“Aren’t you proud?” asked Dale Wavechaser at one point, and everybody looked at Elliot. He understood that Luke and Serene were both very good at using weaponry, this had been made very clear to him, but he didn’t really see what there was to be so impressed with about that. Elliot made a face, and said finally, weakly: “Doesn’t really have anything to do with me.” Which wasn’t great, but wasn’t “No, not proud at all, and also if anyone tells another of these stories I think I might be sick.”
